Since October 2019, Dr. Taza Schaming (Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative) and Dr. Alison Scoville (Central Washington University) have been collaborating on a Clark's nutcracker acoustic monitoring project in Washington's Cascades. They launched the first steps of a long-term citizen science project evaluating Clark's nutcracker occupancy within declining whitebark pine habitats, through a series of student-led projects.
Current students
Please contact me (tazaschaming@gmail.com) or Alison Scoville (Scoville@cwu.edu) if you want more information on how to get involved!
Please contact me (tazaschaming@gmail.com) or Alison Scoville (Scoville@cwu.edu) if you want more information on how to get involved!
Former students
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Benedict Reyes (2020-2021) carried out fieldwork and spearheaded habitat data transcription, organization and summary analysis.
Lilly Fewell (2020-2021) developed initial stages of an acoustic monitor in RavenPro. Isak Larson began the creation of an automatic detector in Kaleidoscope, so we can run our thousands of hours of acoustic data through the detector without having to manually go through each day. Molly Spurrell assisted in testing audiomoths and getting our 2021 fieldwork off the ground. Drew Bland participated in 2020 fieldwork, and conducted a monitor radius study. Sidney Rees updated and created volunteer materials. 
Lauren Taracka spearheaded the Clark's nutcracker acoustic monitoring project in 2020, and is currently analyzing the occurrence data with occupancy models.
Watch Lauren's presentation here! |
Jasmine Ruiz, a MS student, evaluated temporal and geographical changes in nutcracker diet using stable isotopes, using museum specimens.
Nancy Parra completed a set of whitebark pine habitat surveys in 2020 to compare current conditions with those from a decade ago. She plans to submit her manuscript for publication mid-May 2020.
Listen to Nancy's poster presentation here! |
Photo credits Alison Scoville
